Simonton v. Citizens Electric Light & Power Co.

PLEASAHTS, Associate Justice.

Appellant brought this suit to recover damages for injuries to the person of his minor son, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants. The acts of the defendants which are alleged to have caused the injury to plaintiff’s son and are charged to be negligent are thus stated in plaintiff’s petition:

“1. That heretofore, to wit, on or about the 27th day of August, A. D. 1899, and for a long time prior thereto, the said defendants had illegally and unlawfully erected and maintained a certain large electric light pole upon a sidewalk on a street in…